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Series: A Bit Much Hardcover Sarah Jackson 9780735242159 $27.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complexity of friendships, the agony of insecurity, and the beautiful and embarrassing nature of loving someone.Alice is twenty-four and falling apart. She’s lost her job, her appetite, her ability to sleep. And now she’s worried she’s going to lose Mia, her closest friend, who’s being treated for a serious illness. On the days Alice can get herself out of bed, she visits Mia at the hospital. While they sink into familiar patterns—Alice makes Mia laugh... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series A Knife in the Sky Paperback Marie-Célie Agnant 9781771339186 $22.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2022

In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, t... + Read More
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Series: A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life Paperback Robert McGill 9781552454442 $21.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furnitureDistraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she’ll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan’s wish come true.Soon Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have... + Read More
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Series: Whatever After Abby in Oz (Whatever After Special Edition #2) Paperback Sarah Mlynowski 9780545746731 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jun 28, 2022

In this second Special Edition of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series, Abby and her friends enter the magical Land of Oz... with hilarious and empowering results!Follow the yellow brick road... I'm with my best friends Robin and Frankie (and my sometimes friend, Penny) when a TORNADO scoops us up and whisks us away. As soon as we land, I can tell we're not in Smithville anymore -- we've been transported into The Wonderful Wizard of Oz! We're excited to meet Dorothy and Toto... but the story isn't going as planned. The Wick... + Read More
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Series: At Last Count Paperback Claire Ross Dunn 9781988784953 $20.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022AS FEATURED IN TORONTO STAR, ZOOMER MAGAZINE, AND ON CBC'S ONTARIO MORNING AND GLOBAL TVFor readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally RooneyPaisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but in eight weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. A last-ditch effort to reclaim her abandoned childhood home on Amherst Island plunges Paisley into memories of growing up in the tight-knit community, and into the obsessive compulsive disorder that has only ever offered a semblanc... + Read More
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Series: Ballewiena Hardcover Rebecca Bender 9781772781373 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jun 28, 2022

The award-winning creator of the Giraffe and Bird books introduces Dotty the dancing dachshund, celebrating the gifts of those who struggle to "sit" and "stay" Dotty the dachshund knows she was born to dance ballet. When told to sit, she does a plié. Asked to stay, she does an assemblé. Fed up with Dotty’s lack of discipline, Mrs. Austere sends her to the Canine School of Obedience, but Dotty just can’t seem to learn. Heartbroken, the little dog flees to the park—where an unexpected new friend is waiting. Could he know the secret to helping Do... + Read More
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Series: Behaviorally Informed Organizations Behavioral Science in the Wild Hardcover Nina Mažar 9781487527518 $35.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 15, 2022

Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers understand how to use insights from the behavioral sciences to create change in the real world. Written to provide a grounding in behavioral insights research, Behavioral Science in the Wild assists managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations. In particular, this book shares prescriptive advice on how a practitioner who reads a specific research finding from a paper can incorporate that finding into their business or policy problem. Created as ... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Willows Paperback Marie Hess 9781772311679 $21.95 FICTION Nov 21, 2022

The Wright family was sharecropping in Alcott, New York. After years of plowing fields and hanging tobacco, they had an opportunity to own a small farm in southern Ontario. Beth, their only daughter, has just turned twelve. The neighbors warn the family not to go into the woods behind their property. They warned anyone who entered the sacred land has never returned, not even animals. After a harsh winter, Beth believes she can set the rabbit traps on her own and steps into the forest. Lost among the endless maples, she follows a small flickeri... + Read More
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Series: Black Hammer Volume 6: Reborn Part Two Paperback Jeff Lemire 9781506715155 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 12, 2022

The Eisner Award–winning superhero saga returns in this ongoing series picking up twenty years later with artists Malachi Ward and Matthew Sheean. A multidimensional nightmare unfolds and wreaks havoc on Spiral City as the powerful superhero known as the Black Hammer joins forces with the brutal vigilante known as the Skulldigger to put an end to this madness. Black Hammer: Reborn is the next era of the Black Hammer Universe; a twelve-issue series by Jeff Lemire, Caitlin Yarsky, Malachi Ward and Matthew Sheean that juxtaposes an achingly human ... + Read More
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Series: Boys, Beasts & Men Paperback Sam J. Miller 9781616963729 $22.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

STARRED REVIEW, Booklist: "Highly recommended for any reader interested in speculative fiction that concerns itself with queer themes, particularly messy or emotional ones.”In his long-awaited debut short story collection, Nebula award-winning author Sam J. Miller delivers a hauntingly beautiful and occasionally terrifying paen at the intersection between queer life in the past, present, and future.Miller (The Art of Starving, Blackfish City, The Blade Between) has found acclaim across genres; this collection will appeal to his LGBTQIA+, horror... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Catch and Release Paperback Liana Cusmano 9781771837323 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

About coming out and coming of age. In Catch and Release, twenty-one-year-old Lucca looks back on her childhood and adolescence as she comes to terms with both her sexual orientation and her mental illness. When she falls in love with the brilliant and beautiful Adèle, Lucca is forced to acknowledge not only that she is not and never has been straight, but also that her relationship with a teacher in high school was not as harmless as she might have thought.
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Series: Chickadee: Criminal Mastermind Hardcover Monica Silvie 9781525303388 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jun 07, 2022

A flying masked bandit (code name: Chickadee) discovers he isn't quite who he thinks he is in this fresh and delightful tale about discovering one's true nature. Meet Chickadee. Criminal. Rapscallion. All-around bad seed. Sure, he started out obeying the rules, following his parents' advice about finding things to eat and staying away from houses. But then . . . winter arrives. And it's so much harder to find food in winter! So when Chickadee spies a “vault” full of “gold” near a house by the park (Wait, wasn't there something to remember abou... + Read More
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Series: Clockwork Destiny Hardcover Kevin J. Anderson 9781770416512 $49.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

The final volume in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning steampunk trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart In Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, readers met the optimistic young hero Owen Hardy, as well as the more reluctant adventurer Marinda Peake, in an amazing world of airships and alchemy, fantastic carnivals and lost cities. Now Owen Hardy, retired and content in his quiet, perfect life with the beautiful Francesca, is pulled into one last adventure with his eager grandson Alain. This final mis... + Read More
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Series: Crescent Moon Friends Paperback Wadia Samadi 9781773660967 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jun 30, 2022

Crescent Moon Friends introduces the reader to two best friends Amelia and Aisha. While the pair is from Canada and Afghanistan, the girls reconcile their differences through exploration of the values they share. This book initiates a family conversation about Islam, explores tradition and language, and brings the girls closer together as a result. It is our hope that the book will be used as a teaching tool to help children understand the cultural backgrounds of others, and to create a warm environment for refugees resettling in Atlantic Canad... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Cut Road Paperback Brent van Staalduinen 9781771837255 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

A rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories. Containing a rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories, Cut Road is a masterful exploration of the loss and scars that conflict always leaves behind. Where soldiers abandon too much of themselves in war zones, parents relinquish control of their children, and friends struggle with change and tragedy. From the working soul struggling with grief to the wounded veteran seeking redemption in a coffee shop to the sweaty tree-planter fleeing a burning forest, in this collection no one—least of... + Read More
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Series: LIGHTHOUSE LIBRARY MYSTERY, A Death By Beach Read Hardcover Eva Gates 9781643859101 $35.99 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery. It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding... + Read More
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Series: Ebb and Flow Paperback Heather Smith 9781525303357 $11.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 07, 2022

One summer, after a long plane ride and a rotten bad year I went to Grandma Jo's. It was my mother's idea. Jett, what you need is a change of scenery. I think she needed a change of scenery, too. One without me. Because that rotten bad year? That was my fault. Thus begins the poignant story, told in free verse, of eleven-year-old Jett. Last year, Jett and his mother had moved to a new town for a fresh start after his father went to jail. But Jett soon learned that fresh starts aren't all they're cracked up to be. When he befriended a boy with ... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes on Listening Paperback Kit Dobson 9781989496541 $18.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 14, 2022

When Kit Dobson’s daughter looked at the field of stars on the screen at the beginning of a new Star Wars movie in the theatre and remarked to her father, “Yeah, right. There’s not that many stars,” Dobson suddenly realized his daughter had never truly seen the night sky. From then on Dobson began to think seriously about how little we, as humans, interact with the natural world and how that has changed our place within it. Field Notes on Listening is a response to our lack of connection to the land we call home, the difficult history of how ma... + Read More
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Series: Finding Edward Paperback Sheila Murray 9781770866263 $24.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2022

Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2023A Globe and Mail Best Book Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with ... + Read More
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Series: First Broom Paperback Kallie George 9781338803921 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Jun 28, 2022

A charming rhyming read-aloud just right for Halloween!Little witch,Little broom.Brand-new gift,Brand-new moon. Little witch is so excited by her new present for Halloween night — a new broom! But learning to fly a broom is harder than you think, especially when you're just a little witch. Will witch and broom learn how to work together to fly up high in the sky? A sweet and silly rhyming story full of gentle Halloween fun!
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Series: Flip, Flop, to the Beach We Go Hardcover Ellen DeLange 9781605377162 $26.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 9 Jun 10, 2022

A sweet story in rhyme about enjoying a day at the sea. For little starfish and other water rats ages 4 years and up. The sun is shining, cheerful, and bright. It tickles me awake with its happy light. Do you know where we’re going today? To the sea! Little doggy, will you come with me?
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Series: Grin Reaping Paperback Rod Carley 9781988989464 $20.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2022

"Grin Reaping catalogues the foibles of the fictional Boyle family. In a series of fourteeninterconnected short stories and musings, Rudy Boyle, a Northern Ontario college Englishteacher stuck both in middle age and in the middle of his five siblings, transforms the strangenessof his everyday life into exaggerated home-movie prose. From the significance of tuna fish andBotox, the threat of coyotes and aliens, to the big-ticket items of mortality, gender, climate-change, and Armageddon, Rudy tackles a range of topics with a wry, self-deprecating... + Read More
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Series: HARLEM RENAISSANCE MYSTERY, A Harlem Sunset Paperback Nekesa Afia 9780593199121 $22.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home…Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talki... + Read More
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Series: The Harvey Stories Harvey Holds His Own Paperback Colleen Nelson 9781772782516 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 07, 2022

Governor General’s Award finalist Harvey Holds His Own delivers another satisfying story of heart, perseverance, and one incredible little dog, now in a new paperback format. Harvey, the West Highland Terrier hero of Harvey Comes Home, is back with his beloved Maggie. He is also back at Brayside retirement home, where he and Maggie now volunteer along with their friend Austin. There Maggie is drawn to a new resident, Mrs. Fradette, who tells stories of learning to fix cars as a twelve-year-old during the flood of 1950. Mrs. Fradette, with her b... + Read More
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Series: In the City of Pigs Paperback André Forget 9781459749085 $23.99 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal.Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on the love of art, he’s ready for a life of anonymous condo towers and profitable boredom. But when he moves to Toronto, he is forced into a monkish existence by the unforgiving pressures of the city — until he stumbles across a story about an ambitious experimental music collective that co... + Read More
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Series: July Underwater Paperback Zoe Maeve 9781772620696 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 01, 2022

As dusk falls over the lake, Lina's world is beginning to dissolve.It's a typically sticky Toronto summer and Lina's spending her first couple of weeks after graduation reading and hanging out with her best friend Cara. Everything's calm--until she finds out that her childhood friend Alicia has died. With her high school friends quickly drifting apart and her parents out of town, Lina tries to make sense of what has happened on her own. Hoping for answers, she turns to Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse and Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Sal... + Read More
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Series: Whatever After Just Dance (Whatever After #15) Hardcover Sarah Mlynowski 9781338775556 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jun 28, 2022

Here is the fifteenth magical installment of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series of fractured fairy tales for fearless kids!Put on your dancing shoes! Believe it or not, there's a fairy named Maryrose LIVING in my house. And she's sending me and my brother, Jonah, through the magic mirror and into the story of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. There, we meet the twelve sisters who sneak out every night to go dancing. But Jonah and I have our own mission. It's up to us to find the enchanted object that will give Maryrose her fa... + Read More
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Series: Justice League: Last Ride Paperback Chip Zdarsky 9781779514394 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 14, 2022

Once the most powerful group in the world, the Justice League was destroyed by tragedy and time, disbanding under a veil of mistrust and anger. Now, on the eve of the universe’s greatest murder trial, the League must come together one last time. Can Superman and Batman bury the past before the cosmos’s greatest villains bury them? Learn the shocking truth about why the World’s Greatest Super Heroes disbanded in this unforgettable story by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Miguel Mendonça! Includes Justice League: Last Ride #1-7.
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Series: Lake Effect Paperback Dayle Furlong 9781770865723 $22.95 FICTION Jun 12, 2022

This collection of stories charts the emotional lives of characters in the midst of private sorrows and triumphs. Each story, set in the cities and towns around the Great Lakes, reveals the author’s fierce love for a landscape merciless and opulent, yet speaks with eloquence about its inhabitants. The humanitarian crisis in Thunder Bay is seen from the perspective of a police officer whose stepson is missing; fearing he will be found, like so many others, in the McIntyre River, his mother’s grief causes an insurmountable rift. Crumbling buildi... + Read More
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Series: Mazebook Hardcover Jeff Lemire 9781506723662 $39.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 05, 2022

From New York Times bestselling and Eisner award-winning Black Hammer creator Jeff Lemire comes this ambitious and haunting graphic novel about family, mourning, and reality. A lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter receives a mysterious phone call one night from a girl claiming it’s her and that she’s trapped in the middle of a labyrinth. Convinced that this child is contacting him from beyond this world, he uses an unfinished maze from one of her journals and a map of the city to trace an intricate pat... + Read More
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Series: Mecca Paperback William Deverell 9781770416468 $26.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 1983 bestseller An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world’s deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando — an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and psychotic killers — is armed with a failsafe masterplan. Codeword … Mecca. Now the Rotkommando is poised on the brink of a crazed kamikaze mission to nuke Israel and ignite World War III. Only three people on Earth have the power to stop them: a burned-out poet with delusions of grandeur, a devout nymphomaniac with a taste for bl... + Read More
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Series: Mind Games Paperback William Deverell 9781770416451 $26.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 2003 bestseller In Mind Games, William Deverell returns to the intriguing territory of the law and lawyers and of human psychology and motivation, and he does so in familiar Deverell surroundings: the streets, courtrooms, and waters of Vancouver. Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother is being sued for libel by a small-town mayor over a mystery novel; he’s been made the monitor of a man just out of psychiatric ... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Beagle Climbs Signal Hill Paperback Lori Doody 9781927917800 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 03 - 07 May 26, 2022

Someone is snatching snacks on Signal Hill! Can Mr. Beagle suss out who? While taking a hike up Signal Hill, Mr. Beagle soon realizes that people's picnics are being plundered! Who could the culprit be? With his nose for clues and a handy pair of binoculars, he solves the puzzle, and finds a way to encourage community and collaboration. Lori Doody's quirky canine detective is back with another fun and charming picture-book mystery — the third in her on-going Mr. Beagle series.
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Series: TEA BY THE SEA MYSTERIES Murder in a Teacup Paperback Vicki Delany 9781496725103 $22.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

In national bestselling author Vicki Delany’s second delightful Tea by the Sea mystery, Cape Cod tearoom proprietress and part-time sleuth, Lily Roberts, stirs up trouble when she unwittingly serves one of her grandmother’s B&B guests a deadly cup of tea…Lily has her work cut out for her when a visit from her grandmother Rose’s dear friend, Sandra McHenry, turns into an unexpected—and unpleasant—McHenry family reunion. The squabbling boils over and soon Tea by the Sea’s serene afternoon service resembles the proverbial tempest in a teapot. Some... + Read More
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Series: My Lala Hardcover Thomas King 9780735269347 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Jun 07, 2022

A joyful picture book about confidence featuring a little girl making her mark on the world, from acclaimed author Thomas King, and for fans of Ladybug Girl.Lala wakes up one morning and decides that she owns the world. Quick as a fox, she bounds to her box of treasures and finds her shiny red dots — to mark what is hers, because there’s nothing that’s not!Lala’s bear gets a dot, as does her blankie, boots, and even the markers she uses to make scrawls on her walls. When she finishes labeling everything in her room and goes to label her dad-dad... + Read More
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Series: Arvaaq Books Nanuq and Nuka: A Collection of Three Stories Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition Paperback Ali Hinch 9781774504598 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Jun 14, 2022

A collection of three stories starring the adorable polar bear brothers Nanuq and Nuka! Spend some quality time with Nanuq and Nuka in this collection of stories! Join the two polar bear brothers as they play at the swimming pool with friends, go fishing, and practise their high kicks together. They learn about safety, the importance of patience, and not to make assumptions about others based on their appearance. What will Nanuq and Nuka do next?
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Series: Nathalie An Acadian's Tale of Tragedy and Triumph Paperback Debra Amirault Camelin 9781553806714 $23.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Feb 20, 2023

A coming- of-age story filled with heroism and heartbreak for 13-year-old Acadian Nathalie Belliveau. Separated from her family during the brutal 1755 expulsion of Acadians, Nathalie escapes and walks halfway across Nova Scotia to safety in Cap-Sable. When the compassionate Amirault family takes her in, she falls for their shy son Ange. But Nathalie's happiness is shattered by another wave of deportations by the British that keep the young lovers apart. Nathalie uses her tenacity and self-awareness to survive as an indentured servant in North C... + Read More
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Series: Nobody from Somewhere A Crime Novel Paperback Dietrich Kalteis 9781770416116 $24.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

In this action-packed caper novel, a long-retired cop gets wrapped up with a girl on the run Long-retired cop Fitch Henry Haut is terminally ill and living out his final years alone. As he sits in his favorite diner enjoying the meatloaf special, he watches as a young girl steps in and spots two rough-looking men at the counter. When they see her, she runs off and they give chase. His cop instincts kick in and Fitch follows, catching up with them in the parking lot. As the two men try to force her into their vehicle, Fitch manages to ge... + Read More
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Series: A Dr. Annick Boudreau Mystery Noonday Dark A Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery #2 Paperback Charles Demers 9781771623285 $18.95 FICTION Jun 04, 2022

An exciting second installment in the Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery Series, the endearing and unflappable Dr. Boudreau returns in this complex and nuanced portrait of psychology and a city. When Dr. Boudreau is contacted by the Vancouver Police and informed that her patient Danielle has been reported missing and there’s a suicide note, the psychologist is shaken. Danielle, who was being treated for a major depressive episode, had been doing well—talking about her new relationship and the contract she just completed as a speechwriter for a bike... + Read More
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Series: Nosy Parker Paperback Lesley Crewe 9781774710425 $24.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2022

Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother. It's 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with her dad to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a whole new neighbourhood full of different kinds of people to spy on. Audrey is a lot of things: articulate, disarming, forthright. And, as her father reminds her often, indecently nosy. Audrey scribbles every observation down in her notebooks — from which food... + Read More
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Series: One Summer in Whitney Pier Hardcover Mayann Francis 9781771089609 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 May 02, 2022

A nostalgic picture book set in the diverse Cape Breton community of Whitney Pier from the duo behind Mayann's Train Ride, written by Nova Scotia's first Black lieutenant-governor. School is out for the summer, but eleven-year-old Mayann Francis doesn't have much to look forward to. Her two best friends, Eunice and Betty, will be away and her older sister won?t let her play on her baseball team, the Hankard Street Crew. But Mayann's parents won't let her feel sorry for herself. They remind her how much she loves to help them cook traditional Ca... + Read More
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Series: TALENTS, THE Ordinary Monsters A Novel Hardcover J. M. Miro 9780771000027 $39.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J. M. Miro’s Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthine world of the Talents.England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness—a man made of smoke.Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn’t have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded fe... + Read More
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Series: Cranky Chicken Party Animals A Cranky Chicken Book 2 Hardcover Katherine Battersby 9781534470217 $15.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Jun 28, 2022

Cranky Chicken and Speedy the worm are back in another laugh-out-loud, brightly illustrated, and heartwarming chapter book as Speedy tries to plan a party for a hungry Chicken—sure to delight fans of Narwhal and Jelly and The Bad Guys!Cranky Chicken is super high on the crank-o-meter! And hungry. A hungry, hangry chicken is never fun, so Speedy races to cheer Cranky up. It’s Cranky’s birthday, so how about a surprise party? But Cranky hates surprises. So Speedy plans an unsurprise party, a day filled with all Cranky’s favorite un-cranky things.... + Read More
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Series: Predators and Prey Paperback Gordon K. Jones 9781772311655 $22.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Trophy killing for sport? Trent Corbett finally had enough of seeing Facebook posts showing African big game hunters, their long range rifles in hand, kneeling proudly by their kill. The outraged comments below the photos were not enough. It was time for him to do something about it. His solution? Hunt the hunters. Kill them in their own neighborhoods, just like the hunters kill lions, elephants, leopard, buffalo and rhinoceros in theirs. Soon local police discover they have a serial killer on their hands. Led by Police Chief Avery Johnson, sma... + Read More
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Series: PREOFESSOR GOOSE DEBUNKS FAIRY Professor Goose Debunks Goldilocks and the Three Bears Hardcover Paulette Bourgeois 9780735267305 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Jun 21, 2022

The first in a new series by the author of Franklin the Turtle! Join Professor Goose in this STEM-filled picture book as she fact-checks classic fairy tales and shares the science behind these flawed stories.Mother Goose’s fairy tales are NOT based in science, and her great niece Professor Goose thinks it’s time to share the truth. Join Professor Goose as she — literally — travels through the pages of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, fact-checking, exposing the flaws and explaining the science. Bears don’t live in cottages — they prefer dens! Th... + Read More
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Series: Remnants Paperback Céline Huyghebaert 9781771667500 $23.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father's life and sudden death. Employing various voices and hybrid forms—including dialogues, questionnaires, photographs, and dream documentation—Huyghebaert builds a fragmented picture of a father-daughter relationship that has been shaped by silences and missed opportunities. The reader attempts to untangle fact from fiction: multiple versions of Huyghebaert's father are presented while remnants of his life disappear aching... + Read More
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Series: Room for More Hardcover Michelle Kadarusman 9781772782523 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Jun 28, 2022

Two wombats, two wallabies, a koala, and a tiger snake humorously squeeze into one burrow—and reveal important truths about environmental disasters, climate change, and the importance of welcoming refugees. When a fire sweeps through the Australian bush, wombats Dig and Scratch are glad to have a cool, damp burrow to keep them safe. But Dig notices that other animals are not so lucky. When Dig invites a wallaby mother and her joey to shelter with them, Scratch grumbles. When Dig beckons to a koala, Scratch complains. And when Dig welcomes in a ... + Read More
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Series: Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles 2nd edition Paperback Shari Green 9781772782561 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jun 28, 2022

Sent to stay with her estranged grandmother while her parents try to save their crumbling marriage, 11-year-old Bailey feels helpless and cast away. When a self-proclaimed prophet predicts “a stranger from the sea will change everything,” Bailey hopes this stranger can solve her problems—little suspecting her own ability to influence the world. Eleven-year-old Bailey believes in miracles. She has to; it will take a miracle to keep her warring parents together. This summer they are at a Marriage Counselling camp, leaving Bailey and her little br... + Read More
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Series: Scurvy Dogs Scurvy Dogs vs Moby Catfish Paperback Kevin Frank 9781684643561 $7.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Jun 30, 2022

Scurvy Dogs is a fully illustrated first graphic novel for kids who like silly books! Its a swashbuckling journey like no other. In the third book in this graphic novel series, our intrepid adventurers take on snow, ice, and the infamous Moby Catfish, terror of the high seas. Will the pirate pooches prevail?
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Series: Straggle Adventures in Walking While Female Paperback Tanis MacDonald 9781989496534 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 14, 2022

Tanis MacDonald walks the reader down many paths, pointing out the sights, exclaiming over birds, sharing stories and asking questions about who gets to walk freely through our cities, parks and wilderness. She walks to understand the place she now calls home in Southern Ontario, catalogues the fauna around her and walks through illness. Wry, smart, political and lyrical, these essays share the joy and danger of walking, and uncovers its promise of healing, of companionship and of understanding.
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Series: Summer Feet Paperback Sheree Fitch 9781774710890 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jun 23, 2022

The 2022 Shortlists for the CCBC Book Awards Honour Excellence in Canadian Books for Young People A playful, rhyming picture book from Sheree Fitch that celebrates all things summer — now in paperback! A Globe & Mail Best Book of 2020 A CBC Best Picture Book of 2020 Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books of Fall 2021 Hello toes, our tootsie friends Hello, summer feet again! Canada's Dr. Seuss, Sheree Fitch, is back with a brand-new tongue-twisting picture book that celebrates all things summer. From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy wal... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Knowledge Series Sweetgrass Paperback Theresa Meuse 9781771089333 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 31, 2022

A vibrant story of traditional indigenous knowledge and the many uses of sweetgrass. It's early July, and for Matthew and his Auntie that means one thing: time to go sweetgrass picking. This year, Matthew's younger cousin Warren is coming along, and it will be his first time visiting the shoreline where the sweetgrass grows. With Auntie's traditional Mi'kmaw knowledge and Matthew's gentle guidance, Warren learns about the many uses for sweetgrass—as traditional medicine, a sacred offering, a smudging ingredient—and the importance of not picki... + Read More
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Series: TJ Powar Has Something to Prove Hardcover Jesmeen Kaur Deo 9780593403396 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Jun 07, 2022

“With an iconic heroine, delightful banter and a deeply felt message, this debut proves many times over that Jesmeen Kaur Deo is an invaluable new voice. TJ Powar Has Something to Prove is rife with insight and rich with rom-com joy, often on the same page.” — Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of If I’m Being HonestWhen TJ Powar—a pretty, popular debater—and her cousin Simran become the subject of a meme: with TJ being the “expectation” of dating an Indian girl and her Sikh cousin who does not remove her body hair being the “r... + Read More
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Series: Kitty and Friends Tayra's Not Talking Hardcover Lana Button 9781525304842 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Jun 07, 2022

There's a new kid in the kindergarten class, but she won't say a word! But ... does it really matter? This sweet story has a timely message: there are many ways to make --- and be --- a friend! The students in Miss Seabrooke's kindergarten class don't understand why the new student won't respond when they talk to her. Speaking LOUDER doesn't help. Tayra doesn't even answer the teacher! Should they just leave her be? Maybe, Kitty decides, she can show Tayra things instead of telling her. Happily, it works! Soon the pair find they can communicat... + Read More
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Series: The Adventures of Theodore Too Paperback Michelle Mulder 9781774710845 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Jun 20, 2022

Three-book bind-up of popular Theodore books, based on Halifax Harbour's famous tugboat. Join Theodore Too and Lucy Tug as they explore the Halifax Harbour, meeting friends like Dartmouth Ferry, Macdonald Bridge, George Lighthouse, and Guy Seagull. Whether Theodore and Lucy are searching for a school of fish, trying to wake up a giant cruise ship in time for Theodore Too's birthday party, or figuring out who the famous visitor to the harbour is, everyone?s favourite tugboat is always ready for adventure! Based on the real Theodore Too who use... + Read More
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Series: The Aerialists Hardcover Katie Munnik 9780008473198 $34.99 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Paris, 1891 Laura is living on the streets, far from the American Prairies where she was born. When rescued by the entrancing aerialists, Ena and Auguste Gaudron, she soon finds herself ensconced in the family hot air balloon business, and offered the chance to learn how to fly.Cardiff, 1896 The Gaudrons accept an invitation to be part of the Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, presenting a daring show of balloon ascents and parachute descents.Then late one night, a young girl, Grace, knocks on the Gaudrons’ door. She is despe... + Read More